The Missing and the Dead? [Part I]
The Missing and the Dead Part II
The Missing and the Dead Part IV (a continuation)
Hurricane Song - By Allen Watty...
...Beggin you for water again and again,
please don't make me drink the water that I'm standin in...
Look me in the eye, don't you just walk on by,
treat me like I'm nothin, don't leave me here to die...
Marty Bahamonde (Unfortunately, that great pic of him is no longer available):
""OH MY GOD!!!!!!!" Bahamonde messaged the co-worker. "I just ate an MRE" -- military rations -- "and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy." restaurants."
A veteran public affairs officer, Bahamonde was FEMA's only representative in the city from Saturday, Aug. 27, until early Tuesday, Aug. 30. Katrina made landfall
Monday morning, Aug. 29 [Los Angeles Times 10/21/05]."
Last Update: Update [2005-11-14 5:32:40 by DianeL]:
[The Updates Part III: Of note (these and more linked below): This diary has been continued in Part IV, see above link...
more updates below the horizon...
[Updates continued: 11/09-10/05: thenudge's 11/09,
"Stop the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich - Here's How," with the related links (under "Other Links" below),
"One Nation Campaign/My Tax Kit For Katrina," and
"Add links to the One Nation Campaign website from your blog or homepage," zerocrossing's 11/09,
"Katrina Cries - Political Music," and the related links to her composition,
"Katrina Cries [music]," I've added the following links,
please feel free to diarize them (or any link which doesn't state "courtesy of"),
"FEMA ANSWERS [WIKI based]," (under "Websites" below), for 11/07/05:
"Legal maxims; Flood victims may prevail," "Attorney General Warns Consumers About Price Gougers," "Home Inspection May Not Be Necessary For FEMA Aid," "La. lawmakers say recovery costs for state are unfair," for 11/08/05
"Scammers Target Katrina, Rita Survivors In the Midst of the Cleanup, Thieves Are Lying and Impersonating Their Way to Profits," "Louisiana mulls legal action on failed levees," " FEMA grant payouts could be weeks away - Hard-hit households might get $26,200," "FEMA to repay $1.2 million to Harris County," "FEMA will reimburse Houston $101 million," "Elections officials say FEMA will send out voter information," "Rebuilding lives of Katrina victims," for 11/09/05
"Katrina flood wall failures probed - Officials in Louisiana consider empanelling grand jury," "Chairman threatens subpoenas on Katrina," "LEARNING TO START ANEW: Forced north after Hurricane Katrina, kids from New Orleans are adjusting to school and life in Detroit," "Housing top priority, Latham says," "Homeowners still weeks away from receiving FEMA checks," and for 11/10/05
"Steed looks back on Katrina lessons," "Shelley Brown Visits Family After Katrina," "Katrina floods market with drowned cars - Tow, salvage firms hard-pressed to keep up," "US trade gap hits record $66.1 bln after Katrina," "HHS Grants Emergency Aid for Health Care Needs of Katrina Victims in Louisiana," "'Geocoding' used to locate Katrina survivors," (in MS, but no mention of use in LA???)
"FEMA approves more than $13 million in grants to Georgia," "Federal aid for Katrina victims lingering detail," "Victims of Katrina Sue to Force FEMA to Provide Timely Aid,"
"KATRINA BEAT- Dornicia's challenge: Reopening New Orleans," 11/06-08/05:, Added tomster's 09/08/05, "Who will really rebuild New Orleans?" don't miss tomster's related link, "Old-Line Families Escape Worst of Flood And Plot the Future," 09/08/05, (under "Other Links" below) under the bodhi tree's 09/09/05, "Right of Return Movement Starts Here," and the related great link, "New Orleans Population has the Right of Return," 09/08/05, and Cedwyn's 10/16/05, "Posse C in da House?" for 11/05/05: bree's, "Give me your poor, and drown them." m3's, "Pakistan: Quake victims more important than F-16s," (if a dictator can provide for Quake victims what's our problem?), petestern's, "Continuing New Orleans Failure," ManfromMiddletown's, "Halliburton screws migrant workers rebuilding Mississippi," see his related link, "Immigrant workers stiffed for Katrina work," 11/05/05, (under "Other Links" below), for 11/06/05: bink's, "Halliburton Using Illegal Labor in Katrina Cleanup; Subcontractors Stiff Workers," xrepub's, "Katrina/Rita/Wilma Follow-up," Dan Hrkman's, "How many more cities must flood?," see his related flyer (to send to your Congress person) link, "How many more cities must flood so the filthy rich can receive even more tax giveaways?[Flyer on pdf file]," 11/06/05, (under "Web Sites" below), Brian Nowhere's, "All In the Family 2005: Lionel Comes to Dinner," for 11/07/05: IowaEdwardsSupporter's, "Something to Remember," and Mahanoy's, "Scathing Critique of BushCo's "Moral Values," for 11/08/05, there's NOdiaspora's, "LIVE WEBCAST: ACORN - Rebuilding New Orleans," see her related links, "Writings on Rebuilding New Orleans by Conference Participants," 11/08/05 (under "Other Links" below), "Acorn," and "Katrina News," (under "Websites" below); some wonderful people provided quite a few links since the last update, Halycon has provided many: "Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing -"An Oversight Hearing on Gulf Coast Reconstruction Contracting,"" 10/17/05, "9th Ward - October 27, 2005 [images]," 10/27/05, "Unnatural Disaster: Katrina and Governance," 11/04/05, "Immigrants often unpaid for Katrina work," 11/05/05, this excellent post, "I don't know what to say," 11/05/05, and this mini-condensed diary "illegal aliens hired by a Halliburton subcontractor to set up a tent city at a Navy base [which Bush has been frequenting] just outside New Orleans," 11/06/05, starkravinglunaticradical has provided numerous excellent links: "Investigators release preliminary findings of levee failures at Senate hearing," and "Who Drowned New Orleans? Hint: Uncle Sam," 11/02/05, "Lawmakers' "rainy day" is here," and "La. Lawmakers Take Up a Variety of Issues on First Day of 17-Day Special Session in the Wake of Katrina, Rita," 11/07/05, "Roughly 1/3 of the Houma community is still unaccounted for. This includes children and Elders." 11/08/05, and (under "Web Sites" below), "Hurricane Katrina and Rita Information" (re: United Houma Nation), last, but certainly not least, under the bodhi tree has provided many links: "Hurricane-Ravaged Xavier U. to Cut Its Faculty and Staff by More Than Half," 10/31/05, "Why Are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?," 11/03/05, this excellent post "Cheers for HR 4197," 11/08/05, and these 2 (under "Web Sites" below), "Katrina New Orleans Flood Index - Essays, Poems, Survivor Stories, Photos," and, "UP for Democracy,"
11/03-04/05: For 11/03/05: there were seven diaires regarding the new Michael Brown e-mail revelations, jillian's excellent diary, which made the recommended list, was the first: "Arabian Horse Show Mike's New eMails," next was mmmbeer's, "Michael Brown E-mails," mmmbeer also provided a link for the original e-mails, see, "Original [Michael Brown] E-mails [pdf file]," (under "Other Links" below) astronautagogo's, "Brown's Katrina response, "I got it at Nordstroms, Can I quit now?"" sfluke's, "Message to Brownie: ROLL UP THE SLEEVES!" RenaRF's (bleak humor fashion version), "Michael Brownie Brown - Fashion God. Douchebag. (Poll Added)," C I A's, "CBS has FEMA Brown's Emails," Jaffa's, "Brown to FEMA deputy: "Can I quit now?"" on other relevant issues, please read antifa's, "Swords on belts," RobNYC's, "Double Whammy from Bush," for 11/04/05, jillian's, "Yet ANOTHER HACK exposed...." (anyone living in the Gulf area should read jillian's diary), zerocrossing's, "FEMA Squeezes Louisianna for Katrina-Rita Money," and please don't miss under the bodhi tree's, "March On Gretna @ the Crescent City Bridge," and, if able, join the march this Monday, November 7th, 2005, last but not least under the bodhi tree has provided numerous activist links: "New Orleans NetworK," "The People's Institute," "REBUILDING LOUISIANA COALITION,", "ColorOfChange.org," and "The Algebra Project," they're all linked under "Other Links" below);
11/02/05: lightnessofbeing's, "Insurance + Feds mess with numbers of Dead from Katrina,"VirginiaDem's, "A new target for the Katrina burden: rank-&-file fed workers," pithnvinegar's, "Texas Governor Perry Blasts FEMA," for links (linked under "Other Links" below), please don't miss peacepositivemike's, "We never got any assistance," 09/11/05, PLEASE feel free to diarize the following links I've added: for 11/01/05, "New Orleans coroner: Nursing home bodies too badly decomposed to yield evidence of crime," and "Louisiana Residents Blame Deaths on Canal They Sought to Close," for 11/02/05 (don't eat anything before reading the next two links, you'll lose it), "Lawmakers threaten subpoenas for Katrina-related documents," "Brown Talks About Clothes, Dog, Image in E-Mails After Katrina," "New Orleans levee design faulted in report," "National guard's response to Hurricane Katrina scrutinized," "Winners of Katrina Contracts Defend Deals," "JOHANNS ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL USDA ACTION TO EASE GRAIN TRANSPORTATION CONGESTION," "Two [MS] Counties Added to Disaster List," "HUD secretary discuss plans for public housing after Katrina," "SOLACE IN SILENCE - The traditional All Saints Day bustle in cemeteries across the metro area was quieted as residents still struggle to recover from the storm," "Rare historic documents lost to Katrina," "Family loses home to Katrina, son to the war in Iraq," "Lack of stenographers, equipment delaying Katrina autopsy reports," and an early one for 11/03/05, "Hurricanes Damaged La.'s Coastal Marshes;"
11/01/05: Please read Charley on the MTA's, "Immoral budget cuts: Let's raise the ante," BobcatJH's, " Rosa Parks isn't a prop," and magus,' "Money for People = Bad, Money for Corporate Cronies = Good,"quite a few links have been added (under "Other Links" below), psyche777 has provided, "House committee approves plan to reduce food stamp funding," 10/29/05, under the bodhi tree asks "any kossacks in Dallas who could attend this day long conference... Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005?" I've added (and please feel free to diarize any of them), "Louisiana investigates post-Katrina cremation practices," 10/30/05, "La. officials continue pushing FEMA on contacting voters," 10/31/05, for 11/01/05 "Post-Katrina Elections Present Problems," "Executive Order: Creation of the Gulf Coast Recovery and Rebuilding Council," "Executive Order: Establishment of a Coordinator of Federal Support for the Recovery and Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Region," "UPDATE 2-FDIC [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation] head named to hurricane-recovery post," "Ex-A&M system head takes over hurricane recovery," "Louisiana Governor Summons Lawmakers for Special Session on Hurricane Recovery," "When Louisiana Priorities Become Impossibilities," "Apartment association says evacuees will be evicted," "Perry, White thrash FEMA," and "Katrina charities stymied by FEMA silence," lastly, for early 11/02/05 "Cuts to firefighting funds for Katrina aid assailed," and "Katrina's death toll is anybody's guess;"
10/28-31/05: For 10/31/05, read redtravelmaster's firsthand, "Katrina Aftermath Day 63: Life in Chaos," where he continues documenting his experience with Hurricane Katrina, RyoCokey's, "The Barge That Breached the Levee," peacepositivemike's, "Homeland Insecurity: These Children were ignored," and AndreNAlexander's short but very relevant and lucid commentary, "Paying for Rebuilding the Gulf Coast," as for links (see under "Other Links" below), Halycon has provided "New Orleans Community Organizer Malik Rahim Demands Inquiry into Hurricane Katrina Deaths and Amnesty for "Looters [Transcript]," 10/24/05, rserven, a teacher, has provided " New Orleans students adjust to far-flung campuses," 10/27/05, under the bodhi tree has provided the following 4 links, "Gentrifying Disaster - In New Orleans: Ethnic Cleansing, GOP-Style", 10/25/05, "Road Trip for Relief! Reclaim the Gulf!" (can you make it to New Orleans between the 20th and 27th?) "Common Ground Collective," and "The People's Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition,", and lastly, I've added the following links, "FEMA Restricts Evacuee Data, Citing Privacy," 10/12/05, "Ministers criticize 'deplorable' fed response to Katrina recovery," 10/26/05, "Families Still Split Since Katrina," 10/27/05, and the following dated the 10/28/05, "Katrina evacuee here running campaign for seat in Louisiana" (that would be dkos member, Stacey Tallitsch), "Company accused feds of disaster dithering - Body-recovery firm [Kenyon Intl.] instead turns to state,", "Federal hurricane chief: Rita victims wrongly denied FEMA checks," and
"Woman upset she did not receive calls saying her aunts were dead;"
10/27/05: apmiller's, "Say NO to stealth vouchers," rflowers's, "Katrina: Who to Sue?," jimstaro's, "New Orleans Jazz," Jim has thankfully reminded of a great New Orleans radio station to support,
WWOZ 90.7 FM, which Eddie Haskell had previously notified of, the links to the station are included in The Missing and the Dead [Part I] (link at top), speaking of links I've added lots of them today (all posted under "Other Links" below), one great one I missed from rumbacher, "Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina," 09/10/05, Halycon provided an excellent liquid natural gas leak (very significant to the Gulf area), "Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)," 10/09/05, lightnessofbeing has provided two great grass roots web links, "Political Switchboard," and "The Louisiana Activists Network," 'openthread' has provided this must read "La. Hospitals Nearing Financial Collapse," 10/27/05, and I've added the following links, for 10/22/05, "More temporary housing set up in Miss," (can you say Bechtel National Inc.?), for 10/24/05, "FLOOD CONTROL - Protecting against the Next Katrina Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf?," and "Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force Update," for 10/27/05 there are, "Study Team Decries Lack of Access to Army Corps Resources," "Katrina forced hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents onto the unemployment rolls," "Double digit jobless rates on storm-damaged Mississippi coast," "Tenet-owned New Orleans hospital staff subpoenaed," "Murphy Oil hoping La. residents settle," that one is meant to be read along with this crap, "Murphy Oil Q3 profit surges," "Bush May Ask to Use Katrina Aid for Federal Cleanup (Update1)," (NO FRICKING COMMENT) lastly, since on the subject of $$$ and Hurricane Disasters, "ABB Quarterly Net Rises 92% on Refineries, Katrina (Update1);"
10/26/05: For the 26th: Must read editorial writer,
mitch2k2's, "Take A Fitzmas Break And Read This!" if you've been affected by the hurricanes, you have to read kos' "Well, Brownie is
still at FEMA after all," I'd add the related links, but out of the diary's context, it would just confuse people because they're fricking FEMA links, also...< check out some good news for a change, read PaulVA's, "Victory! Bush Backs Off on Prevailing Wage Suspension," see the related link (under "Other Links" below), "Feds to reinstate prevailing wages on Katrina contracts," I haven't been including political canditate diaries, but Stacey Tallitsch's, must read diary, "House candidate slams Hastert," is regarding his own run for office after his first-hand experience being displaced by Katrina, GO STACEY! don't forget to check out the related link (under "Other Links" below), "In Front of Hastert's Office - House candidate slams Hastert," JK Minnesota's, "ACT NOW: House GOP blocking Voter Registation NOW," gobacktotexas,' "Brownie was getting ready to resign," and the related link (under "Other Links" below), "Brown Had Resignation Plans Before Katrina Hit,"
]
This is a continuing archive - originally begun as an expose on the long and despicable reputation of
Kenyon International, Inc. (an SCI Subsidiary), hired first through FEMA, then through Louisiana to assist in seeing to the dead from Katrina - which began here,
The Missing and the Dead? [Updated Title], and continued here:
The Missing and the Dead Part II until yesterday, when I was no longer able to enter any more data.
(Just a note this series is apolitical in the respect that I generally have not included diaries or links from political candidates or groups pushing a political candidate; dkos' own, Democrat Stacey Tallitsch, displaced by Katrina, being an exception who's running as a Louisiana House candidate as a consequence of the disaster (see under "Updates" below). Heh, I haven't exempted though, diaries which question, or expose political candidates and their agendas.)
By the way, any article links that don't state "courtesy of," are ones which I've added and haven't been diarized to my knowledge, so have at it.
Onward...
Other Links
Old-Line Families Escape Worst of Flood And Plot the Future, by Christopher Cooper, The Wall street Journal via Common Dreams, 09/08/05, courtesy of tomster
New Orleans Population has the Right of Return, The Black Commentator, 09/08/05, courtesy of under the bodhi tree
Some GOP Legislators Hit Jarring Notes in Addressing Katrina, By Charles Babington, The Washington Post, 09/10/05, courtesy of rumbacher
"We never got any assistance" (We never got any help. There were three local police officers guarding a supermarket a half-mile down the road, and we never got any assistance.) By Dr. Robert K. Minkes (Dr. Robert K. Minkes is chief of pediatric surgery at Louisiana State University in New Orleans and Children's Hospital of New Orleans), The Denver Post, 09/11/05, courtesy of peacepositivemike
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) (and what you might want to know about plans in the making), Cryptome, 10/09/05, courtesy of Halycon
FEMA Restricts Evacuee Data, Citing Privacy, By John Pomfret, The Washington Post, 10/12/05, link via http://www.thenextleft.com/
Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing - "An Oversight Hearing on Gulf Coast Reconstruction Contracting" [cached], and pdf file of same, testimony by Al Knight and Mike Moran, of Knight Enterprises LLC, 10/17/05, courtesy of Halycon
More temporary housing set up in Miss. (Bechtel National Inc. has begun developing some of the 50 planned sites in Mississippi to provide temporary group housing for hurricane victims... "...intended to provide Mississippians an alternative housing option for up to 18 months.") UPI via Science Daily, 10/22/05
FLOOD CONTROL - Protecting against the Next Katrina Wetlands mitigate flooding, but are they too damaged in the gulf?, By Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 10/24/05
Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force Update, White Collar Crime Prof Blog, 10/24/05
New Orleans Community Organizer Malik Rahim Demands Inquiry into Hurricane Katrina Deaths and Amnesty for "Looters" [Transcript], Democracy Now, 10/24/05, courtesy of Halycon
Gentrifying Disaster - In New Orleans: Ethnic Cleansing, GOP-Style, By Mike Davis, Mother Jones, 10/25/05, courtesy of under the bodhi tree
Brown Had Resignation Plans Before Katrina Hit, By Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post, 10/26/05, courtesy of gobacktotexas
Ministers criticize 'deplorable' fed response to Katrina recovery, By David Pace, AP via The Tuscaloosa News (AL), 10/26/05
La. Hospitals Nearing Financial Collapse, By David Pace, AP via Yahoo News, 10/27/05, courtesy of openthread
Study Team Decries Lack of Access to Army Corps Resources, By Mark Schleifstein, Newhouse News Service (NNS), 10/27/05
Katrina forced hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents onto the unemployment rolls., 10KLFY (Acadiana, LA), 10/27/05
Double digit jobless rates on storm-damaged Mississippi coast, AP via The Sun Herald, 10/27/05
Tenet-owned New Orleans hospital staff subpoenaed (...prosecutors, probing allegations of patient neglect and mercy killing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, have issued subpoenas for 73 employees of a single New Orleans hospital.) Reuters, 10/27/05
Murphy Oil hoping La. residents settle, AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer (WA), 10/27/05
Murphy Oil Q3 profit surges (Murphy Oil Corp, an oil producer and refiner, said its third-quarter profit almost doubled to US$230.9 million (US$1 = RM3.77) on higher energy prices, even as Hurricane Katrina idled its biggest refinery until early next year.) Business Times - Malaysia, 10/27/05
Bush May Ask to Use Katrina Aid for Federal Cleanup (Update1) (...Bush may ask Congress tomorrow to divert as much as $20 billion in funds intended for state and local Hurricane Katrina relief projects to rebuild federal facilities in the Gulf Coast.) Bloomberg, 10/27/05
New Orleans students adjust to far-flung campuses, AP via CNN, 10/27/05, courtesy of rserven
Families Still Split Since Katrina, By Evelyn Nieves, The Washington Post, 10/27/05
9th Ward - October 27, 2005 [images] (These pictures were mostly taken in the last remaining restricted area in New Orleans the lower 9th ward two months after Hurricane Katrina hit.) Photos by directNIC.com, and Sigmund Solares via tampabusiness.com (Tampa, FL), 10/27/05, courtesy of Halycon
ABB Quarterly Net Rises 92% on Refineries, Katrina (Update1) (...the world's largest maker of power transformers, said third-quarter profit jumped 92 percent on demand for equipment from oil refiners and work to repair damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.) Bloomberg, 10/28/05
Katrina evacuee here running campaign for seat in Louisiana (that would be dkos member, Stacey Tallitsch), By Chris Rickert - City Editor, Daily Chronicle (DeKalb, IL), 10/28/05
Company accused feds of disaster dithering - Body-recovery firm [Kenyon Intl.] instead turns to state, By Robert Travis Scott, Capital bureau, The Times-Picayune, 10/28/05
Federal hurricane chief: Rita victims wrongly denied FEMA checks, By Doug Simpson, AP via WWL-TV (New Orleans, LA), 10/28/05
Woman upset she did not receive calls saying her aunts were dead, By Ben Lemoine, WWL-TV (New Orleans, LA), 10/28/05
House committee approves plan to reduce food stamp funding, By "wire services," St. Petersburg Times (FL), 10/29/05, courtesy of psyche777
Louisiana investigates post-Katrina cremation practices (As hundreds of Louisiana families wait to claim the bodies of loved ones still lying anonymously in crowded morgues, the state medical examiner is investigating at least one parish coroner for allegedly disposing of Hurricane Katrina victims improperly.) By Maurice Possley and John McCormick, Chicago Tribune via Grand Forks Herald (ND), 10/30/05
Hurricane-Ravaged Xavier U. to Cut Its Faculty and Staff by More Than Half, By Katherine S. Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/31/05, courtesy of under the bodhi tree
La. officials continue pushing FEMA on contacting voters, AP via The Tuscaloosa News, (AL) 10/31/05
Post-Katrina Elections Present Problems, By Jeffrey McMurray, AP via ABC, 11/01/05
Executive Order: Creation of the Gulf Coast Recovery and Rebuilding Council, Office of the Press Secretary, The Whitehouse, 11/01/05
Executive Order: Establishment of a Coordinator of Federal Support for the Recovery and Rebuilding of the Gulf Coast Region, Office of the Press Secretary, The Whitehouse, 11/01/05
UPDATE 2-FDIC [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation] head named to hurricane-recovery post (The Bush administration on Tuesday named FDIC Chairman Donald Powell to oversee federal efforts to rebuild the U.S. Gulf Coast region devastated by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.) By Andy Sullivan, Reuters, 11/01/05
Ex-A&M system head takes over hurricane recovery (Powell is a former president of First National Bank in Amarillo and is an ex-chairman of the Texas A&M System board of regents.) AP via News8Austin 11/01/05
Louisiana Governor Summons Lawmakers for Special Session on Hurricane Recovery (The governor listed 77 possible topics that lawmakers can consider during the 17-day session, which begins Sunday [11/06].) AP via ABC, 11/01/05
Apartment association says evacuees will be evicted, KCEN TV, (NBC Central TX), 11/01/05
Perry, White thrash FEMA, By Clay Robison and Samantha Levine, Houston Chronicle, 11/01/05
vKatrina charities stymied by FEMA silence, ScienceDaily LLC, (UPI) 11/01/05
New Orleans coroner: Nursing home bodies too badly decomposed to yield evidence of crime (At least 140 patients at New Orleans-area hospitals and nursing homes died during the storm and its aftermath. Wartelle has said previously that six hospitals and 13 nursing homes in Louisiana are under investigation.) By Mary Foster, AP via The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), 11/01/05
Louisiana Residents Blame Deaths on Canal They Sought to Close (Parish leaders have long warned the federal government that the canal, which locals call the MRGO or Mr. Go, would devastate their community in a monster hurricane. The parish council has passed more than 20 resolutions over the past 15 years asking Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers to close the canal. Their pleas went unheeded.) Bloomberg, 11/01/05
When Louisiana Priorities Become Impossibilities, By John Maginnis, BayouBuzz, 11/02/05
Cuts to firefighting funds for Katrina aid assailed, By Erica Werner, AP, with contributions by Robbie Sherwood and Michael Clancy, of The Arizona Republic, 11/02/05
Katrina's death toll is anybody's guess (The state Department of Health and Hospitals as of Monday had "recovered" or received reports on 1,067 bodies. But because of gaps in the data, no one, not even at the agency, considers that an official death count.) By Robert Travis Scott, Capital bureau, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), 11/02/05
Lawmakers threaten subpoenas for Katrina-related documents (The committee has yet to receive requested e-mail exchanges and communications involving White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Army Corps of Engineers Commander Lt. Gen. Carl Strock and Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, said Rep. Charles Melancon, D-La.) By Chris Strohm, Government Executive, 11/02/05
Brown Talks About Clothes, Dog, Image in E-Mails After Katrina ("If you'll look at my lovely FEMA attire you'll really vomit," Brown wrote to colleagues the morning of Aug. 29, the day the storm hit the Gulf Coast. "I am a fashion god." The e-mails, which were released during a hearing of a special House committee investigating the federal response to the storm, also reveal that Brown received messages the morning of the 29th that a New Orleans levee had been breached and the city's pumps were failing.) Bloomberg, 11/02/05
New Orleans levee design faulted in report ("Most of the flooding of New Orleans was due to man's follies," said Ivor van Heerden, head of the Louisiana state Forensic Data Gathering team and deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center. Society owes those who lost their lives and the approximately 100,000 families who lost all an apology.") By Michael Posner, Congress Daily via Government Executive, 11/02/05
National guard's response to Hurricane Katrina scrutinized, AP via The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), 11/02/05
Winners of Katrina Contracts Defend Deals, By Hope Yen, AP via The Washington Post, 11/02/05
JOHANNS ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL USDA ACTION TO EASE GRAIN TRANSPORTATION CONGESTION (...to free up barges on the Mississippi River in an attempt to reduce stress on the grain transportation system caused by Hurricane Katrina. ) USDA, Release No. 0475.05, 11/02/05
Two [MS] Counties Added to Disaster List (Residents of Humphreys and Holmes counties can now apply for the [FEMA] individual assistance program.) WLBT3 TV (NBC, Jackson, MS), 11/02/05
HUD secretary discuss plans for public housing after Katrina (U-S Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson says housing projects destroyed by Hurricane Katrina will be rebuilt as mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhoods, with nearly two (b) billion dollars planned to begin work in Louisiana and Mississippi.) KLFY10 (Acadiana, LA), 11/02/05
SOLACE IN SILENCE - The traditional All Saints Day bustle in cemeteries across the metro area was quieted as residents still struggle to recover from the storm, By Lynne Jensen, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), 11/02/05
Rare historic documents lost to Katrina, AP via CNN, 11/02/05
Katrina victims here in the desert say help has run out (There's a family of Katrina evacuees barely making it in the desert. They've been here for two months, and now the family says all their help has run out.) KESQ TV (Palm Desert, CA), 11/02/05
Family loses home to Katrina, son to the war in Iraq, By Holbrook Mohr, The Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS), 11/02/05
Lack of stenographers, equipment delaying Katrina autopsy reports (Doctors at the morgue in St. Gabriel have completed 500 autopsies on bodies recovered following Hurricane Katrina, but officials or families hoping to obtain the results have a long wait ahead of them. "Only three or four have been typed so far," said Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard, who oversees the autopsies. "We only have one lady typing them up. She lives in Slidell and we have to use a Pony Express system to get the autopsies to her. It's going to be a very slow process.") By Mary Foster, AP via The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), 11/02/05
Investigators release preliminary findings of levee failures at Senate hearing, By Sarah Yang, UC Berkeley News, 11/02/05, courtesy of starkravinglunaticradical
Who Drowned New Orleans? Hint: Uncle Sam, By Harry Shearer, The Huffington Post - EAT THE PRESS, 11/02/05, courtesy of starkravinglunaticradical
Hurricanes Damaged La.'s Coastal Marshes ("The enormity of the disaster is hard to put in words, especially if you've flown over the areas," said Col. Richard Wagenaar, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district chief in New Orleans.) AP via CBS, 11/03/05
Why Are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?, By Bill Quigley, ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes (NathanielTurner.com), 11/03/05, courtesy of under the bodhi tree
Unnatural Disaster: Katrina and Governance, By Stephen Griffin, Balkinization, 11/04/05, courtesy of Halycon
Immigrant workers stiffed for Katrina work (...Come payday, untold numbers of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed.) AP via CNN, 11/05/05, courtesy of ManfromMiddletown
Immigrants often unpaid for Katrina work, By Justin Pritchard, AP via thenewstribune.com (Tacoma, WA), 11/05/05, courtesy of Halycon
"I don't know what to say", another excellent post by Halycon, 11/05/05
illegal aliens hired by a Halliburton subcontractor to set up a tent city at a Navy base [which Bush has been frequenting] just outside New Orleans, 10/29/05, and more on the subject, 11/06/05, an excellent, 'mini/condensed' diary by Halycon
Lawmakers' "rainy day" is here, By Melinda Deslatte, AP via The Seattle Times (WA), 11/07/05, courtesy of starkravinglunaticradical
Legal maxims; Flood victims may prevail (Barbour and Hood, one a died-in-the-wool Republican and the other a died-in-the-wool Democrat, are going on the offense for victims of Hurricane Katrina, specifically the nearly 340,000 who have filed insurance claims.)  By Charlie Mitchell (executive editor of The Vicksburg Post via Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 11/07/05
Attorney General Warns Consumers About Price Gougers (An injunction was filed against the Stuart Electrical Company for charging an 80-year-old Metairie woman more than 300 times the normal rate for electrical service repair work.) 10 KLFY, (Acadiana, LA), 11/07/05
Home Inspection May Not Be Necessary For FEMA Aid, AP via 16 WAPT (Jackson, MS), 11/07/05
La. lawmakers say recovery costs for state are unfair (...three-point-seven (b) billion estimated cost for Louisiana's share of federal hurricane recovery efforts said today the state shouldn't be forced to pay for aid without getting input on the spending.) AP via KATC3 TV, (Acadiana, LA) 11/07/05
La. Lawmakers Take Up a Variety of Issues on First Day of 17-Day Special Session in the Wake of Katrina, Rita, By Melinda Deslatte, AP via ABC News, 11/07/05, courtesy of starkravinglunaticradical
Writings on Rebuilding New Orleans by Conference Participants (the ACORN Community Forum on Rebuilding New Orleans), courtesy of NOdiaspora, 11/08/05
Helping the Houma Nation (Roughly 1/3 of the Houma community is still unaccounted for. This includes children and Elders.), Political Switchboard, courtesy of starkravinglunaticradical, 11/08/05
"Cheers for HR 4197", an excellent post by under the bodhi tree, 11/08/05
Scammers Target Katrina, Rita Survivors - In the Midst of the Cleanup, Thieves Are Lying and Impersonating Their Way to Profits (The victims of the 2005 hurricane season have suffered tremendously - but for some, the worst financial damage may be yet to come.)   By Eric Noe, ABC News, 11/08/05
Louisiana mulls legal action on failed levees (Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center this week took on a state contract for a forensic investigation to determine why the levees failed. The findings would be key to any legal action.)   By Kevin Krolicki, Reuters, 11/08/05
FEMA grant payouts could be weeks away - Hard-hit households might get $26,200 ( Don't hold your breath for that FEMA check. ) By Jan Moller, Capital Bureau, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA), 11/08/05
FEMA to repay $1.2 million to Harris County (The money will reimburse Harris County for payments to faith-based organizations used to shelter evacuees following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.) Houston Business Journal (TX), 11/08/05
FEMA will reimburse Houston $101 million, By Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle (TX), 11/08/05
Elections officials say FEMA will send out voter information, AP via KATC3 (Acadiana, LA), 11/08/05
Rebuilding lives of Katrina victims, By Rachel Kleit (an assistant professor at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs.) Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA), 11/08/05
Katrina flood wall failures probed - Officials in Louisiana consider empanelling grand jury AP via CNN, 11/09/05
Chairman threatens subpoenas on Katrina (...most of the key documents are missing - including anything involving Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and correspondence between federal agencies.)  By Jeffrey McMurray, AP via Seattle Post Intelligencer (WA), 11/09/05
LEARNING TO START ANEW: Forced north after Hurricane Katrina, kids from New Orleans are adjusting to school and life in Detroit By Tom Krisher AP via Detroit Free Press (MI), 11/09/05
Housing top priority, Latham says (For those who haven't received trailers, tent cities in Pass Christian and D'Iberville opened Wednesday. Another tent city is expected to open in Harrison County [MS] next week.)  By Melissa Scallan, The Sun Herald (Gulfport, MS), 11/09/05
Homeowners still weeks away from receiving FEMA checks ( officials said it will take up to five weeks to contact the first 60,000 Louisiana and Mississippi households eligible for the maximum $26,200. Households identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency through satellite imagery as being hardest hit by Katrina, and floods that followed it, can get cash without an in-person visit from a FEMA representative.) AP via Beauregard Daily News (DeRidder, LA), 11/09/05
Steed looks back on Katrina lessons (Steed [Forrest County, MS, Emergency Management Director] said communication with the media was a major shortfall. While Hattiesburg and Forrest County agencies attempted to release vital information at designated times, the information was not getting through)  By Natasha Smith, Hattiesburg American, (MS), 11/10/05
Shelley Brown Visits Family After Katrina (a personal story worth reading), WTOL TV (Toledo OH), 11/10/05
Katrina floods market with drowned cars - Tow, salvage firms hard-pressed to keep up, By Jeff Amy, NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE  via The Star Ledger (Newark, NJ), 11/10/05
US trade gap hits record $66.1 bln after Katrina (The politically sensitive trade deficit with China hit a record $20.1 billion in September, as imports from that country rose to a record $23.3 billion.), Reuters, 11/10/05
HHS Grants Emergency Aid for Health Care Needs of Katrina Victims in Louisiana U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Press Release, via Yahoo News, 11/10/05
'Geocoding' used to locate Katrina survivors (GIS - helped search and rescue crews reach more than 75 stranded survivors in Mississippi. What about in Louisiana?) By Marsha Walton, CNN, 11/10/05
FEMA approves more than $13 million in grants to Georgia, AP via Tallahassee Democrat (FL), 11/10/05
Federal aid for Katrina victims lingering detail (Suddenly concerned about the out-of-balance federal budget dating back to the first years of the Bush administration, the congressional GOP leadership is planning to pay for the cost of disaster relief with budget cuts to the most vulnerable among us: the poor, the sick, the elderly, the children.) By Lynn Evans, The Clarion-Ledger, (MS), 11/10/05
Victims of Katrina Sue to Force FEMA to Provide Timely Aid (class-action suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to force the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide timely aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina living in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.) Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP via PR Newswire, 11/10/05
KATRINA BEAT- Dornicia's challenge: Reopening New Orleans, By Peter Drenan (a "FEMA Leader" working in New Orleans) The Hook ( Charlottesville, VA), 11/10/05
Websites
Actions
Road Trip for Relief! Reclaim the Gulf! (Converge in New Orleans in a Showing of Solidarity! November 20-27 in New Orleans), Common Ground Collective, courtesy of under the bodhi tree, 10/29/05
Any kossacks in Dallas who could attend this day long conference...Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005? comment by under the bodhi tree, 11/01/05
Add links to the One Nation Campaign website from your blog or homepage. One Nation Campaign courtesy of thenudge, 11/09/05
News
Katrina News, thenewstribune.com (Tacoma, WA), courtesy of Halycon, 11/05/05
Katrina New Orleans Flood Index - Essays, Poems, Survivor Stories, Photos, ChickenBones: A Journal for Literary & Artistic African-American Themes (NathanielTurner.com), courtesy of under the bodhi tree, 11/05/05
Katrina News, ACORN,courtesy of NOdiaspora, 11/08/05
Hurricane Katrina and Rita Information, United Houma Nation, courtesy of starkravinglunaticradical, 11/08/05
FEMA ANSWERS [WIKI based] (A project of the Public Interest Law Project and the Sargent Shriver National Center On Poverty Law.)
Organizations
Texas Equal Access Fund (TEA), and Lilith Fund, courtesy of moiv
Address - Lilith & TEA (to donate by check/money order), courtesy of sassy texan
Political Switchboard, courtesy of lightnessofbeing, 10/23/05
The Louisiana Activists Network, New Democracy Rising, courtesy of lightnessofbeing, 10/23/05
New Orleans NetworK (This site is a tool to help people in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast area stay connected to the communities they love, access and share resources, and begin the discussions we need to be having about our past, present, and future.) courtesy of under the bodhi tree
The People's Institute (Today, The People's Institute is recognized as one of the foremost anti-racism training and organizing institutions in the nation. In a 2002 Aspen Institute survey of eleven top racial justice organizations, five credited The People's Institute with having the most effective anti-racist analysis.) courtesy of under the bodhi tree
REBUILDING LOUISIANA COALITION (To rebuild an environmentally sustainable, socially equitable, and culturally respectful community in South Louisiana, particularly the City of New Orleans...), courtesy of under the bodhi tree
ColorOfChange.org (...exists to strengthen Black America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members-Black Americans and our allies-to make government responsive to the concerns of Black Americans, and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.) courtesy of under the bodhi tree
The Algebra Project (...seeks to impact the struggle for citizenship and equality by assisting students in inner city and rural areas to achieve mathematics literacy. Higher order thinking and problem solving skills are necessary for entry into the economic mainstream. Without these skills, children will be tracked into an economic underclass.) courtesy of under the bodhi tree
Common Ground Collective (Common Ground Collective is a local, community-run organization offering assistance, mutual aid and support to New Orleans communities that have been historically neglected and underserved.) courtesy of under the bodhi tree
The People's Hurricane Relief Fund & Oversight Coalition (OBJECTIVES OF THE COALITION: To build and maintain a coordinated network of community leaders, organizers and community based organizations with the capacity and organizational infrastructure that can help to meet the needs of people most impacted by Hurricane Katrina and facilitate an organizing process that will demand local, grassroots leadership in the relief, return and reconstruction process in New Orleans.) CLU (Community Labor United), courtesy of under the bodhi tree
ACORN (the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 175,000 member families, courtesy of NOdiaspora, 11/08/05
UP for Democracy (We are UP (United Progressives for Democracy, a new alliance of progressive groups. Our member groups worked together to fight the widespread voter intimidation and disenfranchisement in Ohio and elsewhere on November 2, 2004. We formed over the weekend of December 4-5, 2004 at the IPPN Progressive Dialogue III.) courtesy of under the bodhi tree, 11/08/05
One Nation Campaign/My Tax Kit For Katrina (We are a group of undergraduates, graduate students, and young researchers at Princeton University who have joined together to help repeal the tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans and support relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.), courtesy of thenudge, 11/09/05
Downloads
Original [Michael Brown] E-mails [pdf file], courtesy of mmmbeer,11/03/05
How many more cities must flood so the filthy rich can receive even more tax giveaways?[Flyer on pdf file], No Free Press.org, courtesy of Dan Hrkman, 11/06/05
Katrina Cries [music],  auto download the mp3 file, composed by, and courtesy of, zerocrossing, 11/09/05
http://chrisvids.org/videos/9th_ward_new_orleans.html>9th Ward New Orleans [video], Composed and produced by Chris Chandler, courtesy of Hootenanny, 11/09/05
Other related Diaries (thank goodness for Jotter):
September 8th, 2005
..by - tomster, Who will really rebuild New Orleans?
September 9th, 2005
..by - under the bodhi tree, Right of Return Movement Starts Here
October 16th, 2005:
..by - Cedwyn, (at A Faerie's Farthing) Posse C in da House?
October 26th, 2005
..by - gobacktotexas, Brownie was getting ready to resign.
..by - JK Minnesota, ACT NOW: House GOP blocking Voter Registation NOW
..by - Stacey Tallitsch, House candidate slams Hastert
..by - PaulVA, Victory! Bush Backs Off on Prevailing Wage Suspension
..by - kos, Well, Brownie is still at FEMA after all
..by - mitch2k2, Take A Fitzmas Break And Read This!
October 27th, 2005
..by - apmiller, Say NO to stealth vouchers
..by - rflowers, Katrina: Who to Sue?
..by - jimstaro, New Orleans Jazz
October 28th, 2005
October 29th, 2005
October 30th, 2005
October 31st, 2005
..by - redtravelmaster, Katrina Aftermath Day 63: Life in Chaos
..by - RyoCokey, The Barge That Breached the Levee
..by - peacepositivemike, Homeland Insecurity: These Children were ignored
..by - AndreNAlexander, Paying for Rebuilding the Gulf Coast
November 1st, 2005:
..by - Charley on the MTA, Immoral budget cuts: Let's raise the ante
..by - BobcatJH, Rosa Parks isn't a prop
..by - magus, Money for People = Bad, Money for Corporate Cronies = Good
November 2nd, 2005:
..by - lightnessofbeing, Insurance + Feds mess with numbers of Dead from Katrina
..by - VirginiaDem, A new target for the Katrina burden: rank-&-file fed workers
..by - pithnvinegar, Texas Governor Perry Blasts FEMA
November 3rd, 2005:
..by - jillian, Arabian Horse Show Mike's New eMails
..by - mmmbeer, Michael Brown E-mails
..by - antifa, Swords on belts
..by - astronautagogo, Brown's Katrina response, "I got it at Nordstroms, Can I quit now?"
..by - sfluke, Message to Brownie: ROLL UP THE SLEEVES!
..by - RenaRF, Michael Brownie Brown - Fashion God. Douchebag. (Poll Added)
..by - RobNYC, Double Whammy from Bush
..by - C I A, CBS has FEMA Brown's Emails
..by - Jaffa, Brown to FEMA deputy: "Can I quit now?"
November 4th, 2005:
..by - jillian, Yet ANOTHER HACK exposed....
..by - zerocrossing, FEMA Squeezes Louisianna for Katrina-Rita Money
..by - under the bodhi tree, March On Gretna @ the Crescent City Bridge
November 5th, 2005:
..by - bree , Give me your poor, and drown them.
..by - m3, Pakistan: Quake victims more important than F-16s
..by - petestern, Continuing New Orleans Failure
..by - ManfromMiddletown, Halliburton screws migrant workers rebuilding Mississippi
November 6th, 2005:
..by - bink, Halliburton Using Illegal Labor in Katrina Cleanup; Subcontractors Stiff Workers
..by - xrepub, Katrina/Rita/Wilma Follow-up
..by - Dan Hrkman, How many more cities must flood?
..by - Brian Nowhere, All In the Family 2005: Lionel Comes to Dinner
November 7th, 2005:*
..by - IowaEdwardsSupporter, Something to Remember
..by - Mahanoy, Scathing Critique of BushCo's "Moral Values"
November 8th, 2005:*
..by - NOdiaspora, LIVE WEBCAST: ACORN - Rebuilding New Orleans
November 9th, 2005:*
..by - thenudge, Stop the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich - Here's How
..by - zerocrossing, Katrina Cries - Political Music
* Further updates after reviewing jotter's: 'High Impact Diaries' diary.
For detail on environmental issues that're missed here, see:
jillian's daily diaries.
Some Google searches regarding the missing:
To search the news: Katrina Missing - News Search
To search the web: Katrina Missing - Web Search
For Google Bombers:
Go into your "User Preferences", on your "My Profile" tab, and add the following (or any other truth baring html link you find to SCI/Kenyon) to your "comments signature":
<a href="http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm">SCI/Kenyon</a>
Track back to
The Missing and the Dead...[Part I]
The Missing and the Dead Part II
Continue forward to
The Missing and the Dead Part IV
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
For 13 days in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the body of Alcede Jackson lay on a porch at 4732 Laurel St., wrapped in a plastic bag and covered in a blanket beneath a sign quoting the evangelist John and commending Jackson to "the loving arms of Jesus." --Michelle Krupa, The Times-Picayune, September 13, 2005
(Yes, I know the picture link isn't working; but it seems apropos to leave that little red x there.)
The wheels of justice grind slow, but smooth...